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If Your Board Looked Like Your Community
Moving Board Diversity from a ‘Problem to Solve’ to ‘Something to Practice.’ Staff and Board Members Weigh in on Common Hurdles and How to Overcome Them. This story is part of New Faces New Spaces, a series by the Irvine Foundation exploring how …
Board Support Position: Sample Job Description
Our thanks to Meg Evans, who shared her job description as Coordinator of Board Relations at the Doernbecher Children’s Hospital Foundation in Portland, Oregon. This version is edited from the original. JOB DESCRIPTION COORDINATOR OF BOAR …
Blue Ribbon Nominating Committee for Your Board
Use this method to recruit 3 – 5 new board members in the next 6 months: “Who do we know?” When board nominations comes up on the meeting agenda, this plaintive question is usually not far behind. While some boards have highly de …
Nonprofit Job Sites Directory
READERS: Please note that a new version of this Directory has been published in April 2011. Find it here. December is famously a bad month in which to look for a job, and a bad month in which to bring on someone new. Get a leg up on January with Tom Ba …
Recruiting for Board Diversity: Part 3 in Diversity Series
In Part 1 of this series on diversity, we discussed mission reasons, business reasons and other ways to think about diversity on nonprofit boards. In Part 2 we looked at diversity at the nonprofit sector level and the importance of organizations of col …
Speed Up the Board Recruitment Process!
Imagine getting excited about volunteering for something, and then waiting six or seven months before you actually get to do it. Can we accelerate the process by "pre-qualifying" candidates? One of the most frustrating parts of board recruitm …
